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Author Topic: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet  (Read 6497 times)

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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #15 on: December 02, 2009, 11:22:11 am »
Quote from: greenkoolayd on December 01, 2009, 08:27:22 pm
Quote from: dejavroom on December 01, 2009, 03:13:43 pm
Maybe the '65 Ford Galaxie will end up peeling out the baby's head skin. I can hold out for that.
the hell?

What, you've never seen "Peel-out Summer"? It's a classic!

Also, what Ash said. Achewood used to have amazing three-panel strips back in the day, which could beat the heck out of long arcs such as the karma wheel.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #16 on: December 02, 2009, 10:30:49 pm »
Beef shouldn't be getting flustered by this choice; he should just pick the geometry ones and that's that.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #17 on: December 02, 2009, 11:21:37 pm »
condom purchasing is I think the one time in my life where I said, "which one have I seen the most ads for? which ones do my friends use?" very openly without any shame or second thoughts.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #18 on: December 03, 2009, 12:06:28 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 02, 2009, 11:21:37 pm
condom purchasing is I think the one time in my life where I said, "which one have I seen the most ads for? which ones do my friends use?" very openly without any shame or second thoughts.
The health office at school used to have no name red condoms from china. And no one ever used them.
Then they filled the basket with those Trojan magnum condoms with the gold foil wrappers. Couldnt keep 'em in stock.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #19 on: December 03, 2009, 05:12:40 am »
Quote from: theinevitable on December 02, 2009, 11:21:37 pm
condom purchasing is I think the one time in my life where I said, "which one have I seen the most ads for? which ones do my friends use?" very openly without any shame or second thoughts.

Why do you know which brand of condoms your friends use?  I don't know which brands of tampons my friends use. Just wonderin'.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #20 on: December 03, 2009, 05:15:08 am »
Quote from: bluemoon72 on December 03, 2009, 05:12:40 am
Why do you know which brand of condoms your friends use? 
Everyone wore their Lisa Left-Eye Lopes costume to the WUSTL Halloween party last year.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #21 on: December 03, 2009, 05:15:37 am »
I guess mostly that my roommate used to have a box of condoms sitting on top of his dresser. After a full year I convinced him that this scares girls away.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #22 on: December 03, 2009, 06:34:54 am »
Quote from: oball on December 02, 2009, 01:01:01 am
Maybe I'm just cynical, but I can't help but feel that "posting short pieces more often than large pieces less often" is going to turn into "posting short pieces less often".

If Onstad views the strip simply as a cash-cow, like Scott Adams views Dilbert, then this view is accurate. If,however, he views it as a creative endeavour of art, that won't be the case, because when inspiration strikes, it will come out on its own schedule and the precise size it needs to be.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #23 on: December 03, 2009, 02:50:12 pm »
Quote from: Bobby Isosceles on December 03, 2009, 06:34:54 am
If Onstad views the strip simply as a cash-cow, like Scott Adams views Dilbert, then this view is accurate. If,however, he views it as a creative endeavour of art, that won't be the case, because when inspiration strikes, it will come out on its own schedule and the precise size it needs to be.

As a person who makes Creative for a living, I can assure you that Onstad gave up the right to treat the strip like Art when he quit his day job.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #24 on: December 03, 2009, 04:01:38 pm »
Regarding knowing what kind of condoms your friends use, I have probably told this story before, but I'll tell it again because it's funny.

Some years ago, I had just broken up with my girlfriend, and was about to go off for a weekend at the beach to a big house full of people and beer.  Ostensibly, there was the possibility of drunken hook-ups.  So my roommate, in an effort to cheer me up, said, "Here, take some of these, you'll need them," and handed me some condoms.

"Dude... these say Extra-Large on them."

"Why yes," he smiled.  "I find they work quite well."

"OK, great.  I'm sure... they'll be fine.  Thanks."
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #25 on: December 03, 2009, 08:08:29 pm »
Quote from: jay-ell on December 03, 2009, 02:50:12 pm
As a person who makes Creative for a living, I can assure you that Onstad gave up the right to treat the strip like Art when he quit his day job.
What was his day job, when he had one?
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #26 on: December 03, 2009, 09:54:59 pm »
Well, he did make it into a decision with a lot more consequences, regarding like, food on the table and such, but I suppose a person still has the right to raise a family on ramen noodles.

Wasn't he a graphic designer? It was something in the Silicon Valley boom.

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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #27 on: December 04, 2009, 01:16:20 am »
I think he was a guy who chooses fonts for a living.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #28 on: December 04, 2009, 06:22:52 am »
Quote from: jaydub on December 03, 2009, 08:08:29 pm
What was his day job, when he had one?
I always assumed (perhaps naively) that he had been a usability engineer.
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Re: December 1, 2009: The Golden Mallet
« Reply #29 on: December 04, 2009, 06:36:17 am »
Quality pull, Rowboat.
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